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Friday, August 30, 2002, 0:32 EDT (12:32 PM EDT) : CDCHAN-00094-2002-08-30-ADV-N : There have been numerous questions about the process of testing and diagnosis of West Nile virus. The information below is intended as a resource for public health age...

National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Vector-Borne Diseases.

Published:

June 14, 2013

Description:

Third revision published as: Epidemic/epizootic West Nile virus in the United States : guidelines for surveillance, prevention, and control, 2003. : As West Nile virus (WNV) spread and became established across the United States following its first i...

National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Vector-Borne Diseases.

Published:

January 13, 2016

Description:

Memorandum : Many countries in the Americas now have local transmission of multiple arboviruses that can cause febrile illness with rash, myalgia, or arthralgia. Therefore, laboratory testing has become even more important to confirm the etiology of ...

Using oral swab samples to detect West Nile virus in dead birds, we compared the Rapid Analyte Measurement Platform (RAMP) assay with VecTest and real-time reverse-transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. The sensitivities of RAMP and VecTest for tes...

Testing of specimens within the United States and U.S. territories to determine possible Zika virus infection should be limited to specimens collected from patients meeting CDC’s clinical and epidemiological criteria for testing1. Clinical signs an...